Complex’s December/January issue is the gift that keeps giving. Already toting two different covers, the magazine is not stopping there with their third featuring none other than J. Cole. Transporting us to Cole’s hometown of Fayatville, North Carolina, the rapper discusses being an artist first and businessman second.

“I want to be a great artist first, and as good of a businessman as I can be without taking away from my art form. I’ve been through worrying about a hit and it forcing me to make [a certain] type of song because I got all this pressure,” he explains. “Business is only satisfying in the security of it and the fact that the better I am at business, the better I am at providing for my family. Business moves don’t bring me happiness. The things the business moves provide bring me happiness. Seeing Cozz about to drop his first project and remembering what that was like. Seeing Bas go on tour….”

Check out the full interview over at Complex and look out for J. Cole’s upcoming LP 2014 Forest Hill Drive set to arrive Dec. 9.